More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 110
On counting the victims of his valour, he was overjoyed at his success; his heart rose to the doing of great deeds, and he gave vent to his feelings in the saying:--
Who acts: heart, Johnny · What happens: count, overjoy, rise, do, give · To what, where: victims, Johnny, success, vent, feelings, saying
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Johnny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 counting | mark |
| 2 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 overjoyed | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 victims | det |
| 4 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counting | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 valour | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 valour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 victims | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 counting | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 11 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 success | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 success | nmod:poss |
| 14 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overjoyed | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overjoyed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 doing | det |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 rose | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 deeds | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 deeds | amod |
| 24 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 doing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gave | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rose | conj |
| 29 | vent | vent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 feelings | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 32 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gave | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 saying | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 saying | det |
| 35 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obl |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 overjoyed | punct |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | the victims of Johnny's valour | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Theme | |||||
| 2 | overjoy | past · passive | Johnny | Johnny's success | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | Johnny's heart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | Johnny's heart not said here | of great deeds | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Johnny | vent | Johnny's feelings | the saying | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to feeling=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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